Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CTV On Top People love to talk about streaming surpassing linear TV viewership, and that trend shows no sign of slowing down. Digital video advertising is on track to account for more than half of total video ad spend and to outpace traditional TV […]
Digital ad tech companies are making their play to control advertising on CTV. But it’s not easy to become a star of the big screen. Ad tech companies that make it big in CTV must earn their spot in a few ways. First, they must understand the supply constraints of CTV and find their niche. […]
The number of US-based subscribers of NBCUniversal’s premium ad-supported streaming service Peacock has leaped from 33 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 to 42 million in Q1 2021. During the Q1 earnings call of parent company Comcast on Thursday, NBCU attributed the increase – coming a year after Peacock’s launch – to the popularity […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Nielsen’s recent agreement with Roku is poised to accelerate the growth of addressable TV advertising. And with Disney’s recent announcement that it plans to automate more than half of its business and make the majority of its inventory – both linear and digital […]
Imagine the headaches inflicted on TV advertisers as they try to onboard and match audiences across each different programmer’s linear and digital inventory – all for one single campaign. That is precisely the problem that the OpenAP consortium was created to help solve. OpenAP has technology to unify onboarding, campaign activation and measurement across its […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. About six years ago, ad server Innovid introduced interactive ads in CTV. Now, about a third of Innovid’s clients are testing them, and the company is seeing 2% to 3% engagement rates that are four or five times higher compared to other ad […]
WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and HBO gained nearly 3 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2021, and the company is bullish about launching an ad-supported version of the streaming service in June. During its Thursday earnings call, WarnerMedia parent company AT&T said that the total number of domestic HBO Max and HBO subscribers combined topped 44 […]
Ad verification company DoubleVerify went public on Wednesday, a month after it filed an S-1, and a week after it set the terms for the IPO, which had it valued at $4.2 billion. However, the company’s stock opened at $35 a share – nearly 30% above its IPO price – valuing the company at more […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. FLoC Fears There’s no love lost for FLoC. In a blog post on Sunday entitled “Proposal: Treat FLoC As A Security Concern,” a WordPress developer called Carike suggested that users of the open source content management software block FLoC by default. If that happens, […]
Roku said Tuesday it added six new ad tech companies to its Measurement Partner Program to help retail, CPG, pharma, auto and other advertisers better measure ad campaign performance — such as mobile app downloads — as marketers shift their spending to streaming. Adjust, Affinity Solutions, Branch, IRI, Kochava, and Veeva Crossix have joined Roku’s partner program — […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TikTocking Dollars TikTok wants in on the ecommerce action that has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s introducing new ad formats designed for purchase conversions on the platform. Business Insider reports that the Chinese video app plans to roll out new tools l that […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Andy Fisher, head of Merkury Advanced TV at Merkle. With the deprecation of third-party cookies and its implications on media targeting, advertisers are increasingly looking for opportunities to leverage both their first-party data and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Raising CAID Procter & Gamble took part in early tests by Chinese trade groups and tech companies to bypass Apple’s upcoming privacy changes, according to The Wall Street Journal. P&G experimented with the so-called CAID (China Advertising ID), which uses unique device attributes to […]
It’s no surprise that premium video — commercially produced, long-form episodic video — commands much higher premiums than standard digital video, but recent research from Standard Media Index (SMI) showed just how much. SMI found that average premium video CPMs were nearly two times higher at 192% of the total digital video market, and accounted […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Grabbing Share Watch out, Google and Facebook – Amazon is catching up. According to eMarketer, Amazon’s share of the digital ad market in the United States grew to 10.3% last year, up from 7.8% in 2019, The Wall Street Journal reports. It’s expected to make […]
One reason performance advertisers love search advertising is because they can easily see the return on their ad investment. Based on that insight, Jason Fairchild co-founded tvScientific and raised $1.5 million in seed funding from prominent names in ad tech and search advertising. The platform aims to deterministically link someone seeing a commercial to that […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by David George, CEO of Pixability. While advertisers now recognize the importance of CTV for reaching an enormous audience – 2020’s dramatic acceleration led to consumer user numbers exceeding 200 million – they are still […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CTV Winning Google Ad Manager’s second annual Advanced TV Inventory Report is out, and surprise! Connected TV was a big winner during the pandemic last year. The report analyzed 35 global advanced TV partners. In Q2 2020 — at the height of the downturn […]
Magna’s US ad spend forecast released Wednesday paints an optimistic picture for the ad industry, following the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The IPG agency said that a quicker than anticipated economic recovery, supported by a new stimulus package, a decline in COVID rates and return to normal sporting events, will boost ad spending […]
Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) has integrated TV ad server Innovid’s ad tech into its Ad Management Platform as part of an effort to unify linear and digital ad campaign management. The combination will help automate workflow processes, including creative ad management, performance analytics and optimization across screens and channels for both linear TV and online […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Vista Acquires TripleLift Stop me if you heard this one: Vista Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in an ad tech firm. This time, it’s TripleLift. Read the release. Ronan Shields of Adweek claims Vista invested $1.4 billion, and the deal is expected […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Univision is launching PrendeTV this week, its free ad-supported service exclusively for Hispanics, part of a growth strategy that includes ramping up content and rolling out new platforms and automated solutions. PrendeTV will be the first premium Spanish-language AVOD service, and the announcement […]
Vizio went public Thursday after filing an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month. The television manufacturing industry is hypercompetitive, with little differentiation between the devices and perpetually low margins. So it’s no surprise that one of the key drivers of Vizio’s growth will be its fledgling advertising business. After all, it’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mountain Of Money When ViacomCBS promoted Paramount Plus ahead of its launch, subscribers were promised “a mountain of entertainment.” And the company is continuing to put a mountain of money behind that tagline. The company said Monday that it’s looking to raise $3 billion […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. It’s unclear what the future of TV ad buys will look like in connected TV. Since much of TV inventory — including much of CTV — is reserved in the upfronts each year, will programmatic auction-based buying eventually be used in CTV as […]
“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Maccaro, CEO at Beachfront. The market for addressable TV advertising is projected to almost double in the next two years. Over the last several months, the rapid rise in addressable has been driven by increases in the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tal Chalozin, CTO and cofounder at Innovid. Connected TV is everywhere. With 83% of all American homes projected to have at least one CTV device by 2023, it’s clear there’s a massive opportunity for connecting with audiences. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Deal The fallout from the recent big tech vs. Australia beef is starting to hit closer to home. Reuters reports that US lawmakers are looking to avoid a similar brawl by hashing out a way to make it easier for news organizations to […]
A week before ViacomCBS rebranded CBS All Access as Paramount Plus on March 4, George Cheeks, president and CEO of CBS Entertainment Group, noted that NFL football in particular will be fundamental to the platform’s growth. “It drives more subscriptions than any other program, and significant engagement too,” Cheeks said during the company’s Feb. 24 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcast Pie Entercom Communications is throwing its hat into the booming podcast space that is expected to generate more than a $1 billion in advertising revenue this year. The company is set to acquire podcast ad network Podcorn in a deal aimed at helping […]
